I work in medicine, and one of the hospitals in our system is the VA. I have literally no interest in serving veterans; people who fight in wars for America pretty much stand and act against everything I believe in. It’s not necessarily that I think these people don’t deserve great healthcare, it’s that I don’t want to be the one giving it to them. I would much rather spend my time serving people from my community who didn’t spend large parts of their lives wrecking other communities.

Sure, some of my patients anywhere are going to be complete assholes. Sure, there are a lot of veterans who weren’t involved in combat (but they did directly aid those in combat at least, right?). Idk, is there a perspective I’m not seeing here? Is it wrong for me to be morally opposed to working for the VA?

  • MotherOfZachHill [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    remain blameless through delegation

    it’s so funny how socialists think the Banality of Evil is an argument in their favor and not one that condemns them for being worthless little drones

    think empathy as a starting position would be wise

    Radlibs will never use marxist historical materialism because its in their class interests to obscure materialism

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      4 years ago

      I don’t disagree with your derision of the banality of evil defence, but the delegation and relative degrees of powerlessness allows us to judge on soldiers as a case by case basis.